Relieved

I am relieved to say that our home visit with the social worker went very well. She was a great lady who put us at ease right away.

On the way home from work today, I got to thinking that I should probably have something to offer her so I stopped to buy cheese. What could be better than a cheese platter to lighten the mood, add in some pistachios and chocolate covered almonds, a few apples and some grapes for good measure and viola! Behold...

Ok, except after all that worry, we didn't even get to the cheese. Lots of talking, and clarifying things and no cheese.

It was a pretty pain free visit, she asked us to explain our childhood, relationship story, parenting ideology and values and many other small non scary things(finances, retirement, some health related stuff). She took a tour of the Tiki Lodge and we showed her our swing set, which she said she would definitely put in the report. When asked why we had a swingset, Paul said that he liked to swing, then added, "strictly on the swingset thought". We all had a chuckle about that.

At the end of the visit, the social worker said that she would definately be writing up our report(and that she has thought about refusing people before) she said that ours would be a good report with lots of favourable things to say.

So, that was a great big hurdle and we are almost over it. She said it would take about 2 weeks to get everything written up and sent to the lawyer and a copy to us. I guess its time to start looking for posibilities. I don't know why, but I feel like my life has been on hold for the last few months. I am glad that this big part of our journey is almost behind us and we can get closer to actually being parents.
Thanks for all the prayers you said for us and all the positive thoughts and support so far!